Key Details Questions

1st Grade ELAReading Comprehension5 pages

About this worksheet

Sam and Pip climb a rope into a red and blue tree fort, find a tin box with three black stones and a paper map, and follow the map's red X to the duck pond. Ten questions on that story fill this 5-page 1st grade comprehension. Part 1 asks for details such as the fort's colors. Part 2 asks why, and what glad means. Part 3 checks whether the gold coin was real, then students write their own Who, What, Where or Why question. It follows Common Core RL.1.1, and the answer key covers all ten.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RL.1.1

โ€œAsk and answer questions about key details in a text.โ€

Questions 1 to 9 answer from details in the story, and question 10 has students ask their own question about it.

What's inside this worksheet

The Big Tree Fort

A picture-supported story about two friends, a tin box, a map and a fake gold toy coin found near the pond.

Part 1 Find the Details

Four questions: where the friends go, the fort's colors, what they climb with (a thick rope), and the two things in the box.

Part 2 Think About It

Why they want shade, what glad means (mad, happy or sleepy), and why they run to the pond, answered with evidence.

Part 3 Show What You Know

A true or false question on the gold, a word from the last paragraph to prove it, and a question of the student's own for a partner.

Answer key

Answers for all ten, with fake or toy accepted for question 9.

How teachers use it

Partner questions

Save question 10 for the end and have partners swap and answer each other's questions. The last box becomes a quick oral check.

Model the proof word

Question 9 is the one to model. Students know the coin was not real, but finding "fake" in the last paragraph takes a second read.

Two sittings

On day one, read the story and do Parts 1 and 2. Reread it on day two before Part 3, since the proof word is at the very end.

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